Margrit Rainer born as Margrit Rosa Sandmeier (9 February 1914 â€" 10
February 1982) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and
film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and
television and stage productions.Born and raised in Zürich-Oerlikon,
Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, to Elise née Boller and Johannes
Rudolf, Margrit Rosa Sandmeier dreamed of a circus career. Her parents
forced her to make an apprenticeshipt as a photo lab assistant, but
she secretly took acting classes and singing lessons. At the age of
18, she married Fritz Pfister, a Swiss actor, and they emigrated to
Ibiza, where they operated a chicken farm. But the marriage broke up
and she returned to Switzerland. Rainer worked as a cashier at the
Zürich hotel Hirschen in 1934, the venue of the Cabaret
Cornichon.After first appearances at the Schweizerisches Volkstheater
in 1938, Rainer debuted as chinesische Mutter ("Chinese mother") at
the Cabaret Cornichon. Engagements at the Corso Theater Zürich and on
occasion of the Swiss National Exhibition Landi'39 at Zürichhorn as
Mäiti in the Swiss-German play "Steibruch", brought her artistic
breakthrough. In the meanwhile, she also staged on the cabarets
Resslirytti in Basel and Nebelhorn in Zürich, but from 1938 to 1950
she was a member of the Cornichon ensemble in Zürich where she met
Ruedi Walter. She also played in various radio plays, among others in
Regenpfeifer by Jürg Amstein and Artur Beul in 1948.After
participation in the musical "Eusi chliini Stadt" at the opening of
the Theater am Hechtplatz in Zürich in 1959, Rainer staged there in
the 1960s on a regular basis, so in several musicals such as "Bibi
Balù" and "Golden Girl". In 1969 Rainer played at the Basler Theater
the role of mother in the dialect version of Edward Bond's "Saved".
February 1982) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and
film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and
television and stage productions.Born and raised in Zürich-Oerlikon,
Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, to Elise née Boller and Johannes
Rudolf, Margrit Rosa Sandmeier dreamed of a circus career. Her parents
forced her to make an apprenticeshipt as a photo lab assistant, but
she secretly took acting classes and singing lessons. At the age of
18, she married Fritz Pfister, a Swiss actor, and they emigrated to
Ibiza, where they operated a chicken farm. But the marriage broke up
and she returned to Switzerland. Rainer worked as a cashier at the
Zürich hotel Hirschen in 1934, the venue of the Cabaret
Cornichon.After first appearances at the Schweizerisches Volkstheater
in 1938, Rainer debuted as chinesische Mutter ("Chinese mother") at
the Cabaret Cornichon. Engagements at the Corso Theater Zürich and on
occasion of the Swiss National Exhibition Landi'39 at Zürichhorn as
Mäiti in the Swiss-German play "Steibruch", brought her artistic
breakthrough. In the meanwhile, she also staged on the cabarets
Resslirytti in Basel and Nebelhorn in Zürich, but from 1938 to 1950
she was a member of the Cornichon ensemble in Zürich where she met
Ruedi Walter. She also played in various radio plays, among others in
Regenpfeifer by Jürg Amstein and Artur Beul in 1948.After
participation in the musical "Eusi chliini Stadt" at the opening of
the Theater am Hechtplatz in Zürich in 1959, Rainer staged there in
the 1960s on a regular basis, so in several musicals such as "Bibi
Balù" and "Golden Girl". In 1969 Rainer played at the Basler Theater
the role of mother in the dialect version of Edward Bond's "Saved".
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